Breaking News! Today the St. Moog Catholic University Auditory Clinic and Research Center became the first university in the world to successfully restore sensorineural hearing loss (nerve deafness) in 20 bilaterally deaf babies (age 8 months to 2 years old) in its year long Phase II human application research stage. A gain of 60 to 70 dB was successfully restored in all of the babies previously born with sensorineural hearing loss who had severe to profound hearing loss. The restored hearing remained stable after a year and showed no signs of loss or change. Ear hair cells were successfully grown in the cochlea using dead viruses as natural vectors to deliver each of the baby's own stem cells into their ears. The restoration rate was similar to birds who have the ability to self-restore their own damaged hearing in a matter of weeks. Researchers and parents were equally delighted by the results. It was said that the regeneration of sensorineural hearing loss would take a few decades to achieve but they have already reached that milestone so quickly.
Mark on your calendar April 1, 2012 as the day when parents of deaf babies will soon have the option to restore their babies' sensorineural hearing loss with this easy to use medical application.
Sunday, April 01, 2012
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10 comments:
good one, Mike! :)
you should post this at DeafCube.com too. I bet some folks would say, "But they're OUR stem cells!"
Anonymous the First
Wonderful news! I wonder if that will mean Ella is going to be listed as an endangered specie fairly soon?
Well, April Fools. But the science is real and someday in regenerative medicine nerve deafness will one day be restored. As for endangered species, don't know about that. Even the native Indians were thought to be an "endangered species" one time.
Well, April Fools. But the science is real and someday in regenerative medicine nerve deafness will one day be restored. As for endangered species, don't know about that. Even the native Indians were thought to be an "endangered species" one time.
EXCEPT babies who have gotten cochlear implants! They loose out! This is why bilateral implants should NEVER have been allowed! It has ruined the chance for these children for THIS breakthrough!
The FDA did just approve the trial into cord blood stem cell therapy for children with sensorineural hearing loss and UK researchers are investigating age-related hearing loss too so it's closer than you think... http://stemcelltreatments.org/stem-cell-therapy/conditions/stem-cells-for-hearing-loss/stem-cell-researchers-grow-new-ear-cells-to-restore-hearing/
anony @ 2:11 PM,
I already covered the cord blood stem cell therapy approved by the FDA in an earlier blog not too long ago.
A team of Korean researchers reported on November 25, 2003, that they had transplanted multipotent adult stem cells from umbilical cord blood to a patient suffering from a spinal cord injury and that following the procedure, she could walk on her own, without difficulty. The patient had not been able to stand up for roughly 19 years. For the unprecedented clinical test, the scientists isolated adult stem cells from umbilical cord blood and then injected them into the damaged part of the spinal cordStem Cell Treatments
St. Moog Catholic University? Where the hell is that. Google don't know either. Probably a scam report.
Maybe if anonymous @8:34 PM took the time to read the date of when I wrote that blog piece. And how I bold, underlined the date, too. Should be enough of a hint. If not, read the responses in here to help you out.
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